Journal # 11- What and how are you going to achieve in life?

My main goal in life is setting up my own animation/video game/computer company and run it like no one else, having my employeers be more than just co-workers who work for a salary, create a team of people who are also interested in the satisfaction of the consumer and love what they do. Compete with other companies and take them down with pure innovation and hard work with excellent products that appeal to a great variety of costumers, leaving them satisfied with the product they just bought and wanting more. This would be a fair challenge to myself as my keep going until its done attitude will get me through the first struggling years of all starting companies. Starting from the ground up will determine the future of my achievement as my plan is to start right away trying to get my name out there in the internet possibly You Tube where most people start these days.After leaving my mark on You Tube I will got an Art Institute to learn animation and seek a team of people I can work swiftly with great end products. After that I will go into an University and learn business administration as I want to be my own boss and control my area of work when needed.

Journal # 12 My life-15 minutes

You see me wake up 5 minutes early before the alarm on my Ipod goes of still semi unconscious, not wanting to get out of bed as it is freezing in the morning and my blankets wrap me up so well. I make my mind and run to my closet  take some clothes out which are chosen at whatever I see first because, I am colorblind so I don't care much about matching. I hit the shower 20 minutes as always I stand there in the shower sleeping on the wall until the water changes from hot to super cold and it wakes me up, get out  fix up my curly hair, check if my beard is not too out of place and if it is I shave it so It doesn't look too messy. I then proceed to eat my breakfast which is usually pancakes. I walk towards my computer turn it on and check if I have an facebook updates or if there is anything funny on YouTube. Munching on my delightful breakfast as I finish it, going over the sink to leave my plate. Go to the bathroom and brush my teeth, get out and think "When will school be over, Im tired maybe Ill sleep a bit earlier today". I say "Good-bye" to my grandma and sister as I walk out the door freezing because I just got out of the shower.

Journal # 13 - Future college roommate

Hello I'm  Ken Kesey and Ill be your roommate for the next semesters. I have never had the  experience of living in the school dorms, nonetheless having a roommate to whom I need to adapt to and get to live and know. A bit about myself, I am an early bird so I might start making noise at 5 AM or a little bit later. I tend to be a sociable person and I won't get into any of your business, rest assure of that and also I'm a standard cook so I can manage breakfast and dinner(If I have the time). I'm going to be studying to become a video  game programmer and a business administrator meaning that there is going to be a lot of cables running all around my area of the room. I graduated from castle park high a nice school with outstanding staff and teachers I am proud of being a Trojan. I am latino from the city of Ensenada, I studied there for 4 years then moved here to Chula Vista.I've always had a great mind to set up stories and I love spending time on a computer and talking geek. Well this is all you need to know of me, let's get along for the rest of the year and if things do not work out then let's just keep at it until we can get changed.

Journal # 14 Money owns you!

"He does not posses wealth, it possesses him" I can see that this quote is directed to a man, a man with money maybe with some much money that greed has taken over him and now the money owns him. As it is essential to get money to keep living there is a point where it becomes too much. That wealth that is accumulated has taken away part of your life. Another thing I can think of is we never posses any money as it always leaves our hands, it comes and goes. We exchange it for other things and is not ours forever.
How we are living now with a poor economy going even lower, I can see how money and the more we have flowing improves our way of living. If our economy wasn't in this decaying position then more people would have jobs and the occupy wall street would not be happening right now. As of right now the situation we are going through is based around money, it is hard to believe how that piece of paper controls my life and that of others.

Journal # 15- Cool leader

I had always pictured myself as the leader of my team in college if we get to have some sort of group project. I am pretty good at managing and doing leader type jobs so being the head of something is not a problem.  Having to solve the issues presented to me at any given time would be addressed as soon as possible being that when it comes to work I tend to get important things out of the way first. Improving the campus, searching for what things to change, what we need more of, understanding what the students there need to have more of or less of. Having opening speeches in the first day of college and certain graduations to inspire and add to what the college has to offer. Over all increasing the quality of the campus would be my priority, being some sort of leader or manager in that place.

Journal # 16- That one scary rollercoaster

When I was younger I used to live in Ensenada which is south of Tijuana, about 30 or 40 minutes (drive). Well it was that time of the year when they set up El Carnaval which is a huge fiesta type of thing where you go and dance, drink, hear music, pass my a thousand people and have a nice time. Well there is also a theme park that get set up near by and I can still remember the sound that yellow colored rollercoaster made. It was the second time I had seen one and maybe even rode one. Ill clarify I am not afraid of heights but when I get to the top I do get a bit scared. Well my mom and sisters wanted to go on the yellow rollercoaster and as you can guess I was soo afraid. I made myself hard to drag and my mom was getting annoyed. I ended up not riding the rollercoaster that time. But as I finished all the other smaller rides and games I always ended up infront of that coaster. So I asked my mom if we could ride it. She said " Que no le tienes MIEDO?" and for snizzle I was afraid but my curiosity was bigger so I got on the ride and as soon as it locked I told myself "Its OVER! I can't leave now".
What happened next was the best minute or 2 of my life. It was amazing, the drop and the quick turn I was having a blast. After I got off I wanted to go on it again and so we did. Moral of the story I learn that trying scary things may end up in a great experience.

Journal # 17- Personal Issue-Not trying enough/Life decisions

I have been noticing for the past 2 or 3 years that I am an underachiever, I had an opportunity to be in IB and I ran out of there the first day. I also had the opportunity to skip a year and then again I declined , with my grades and the effort I was putting in school back them I could be out of highschool and having a semester of University already done. My decision of not skipping those grades leave me thinking now where would I be. I have the brains to get to places, get the schoolarships but I just do not feel motivated to do so.If I had not stop putting as much effort I know pretty well I can wipe all competition that's for sure. I may be an underachiever but when I get something in my mind that I have to do I go for it full speed, which is one of my best traits trying to hard for that, that I am passionate about. If its about fixing some electronic that I need to use but I lack the money to fix it I do it myself without any prior experience I work on that until I get it fixed. Or if all that is tried fails I work my way around things for my good or for others. Having taken those decisions in life now have me sitting with 4 great friends with which I tend to hang out alot( I have alot more friend but these guys are my MLG). If I had been moved those years I would have never met them. Yet that other side of me knows I would be in a better position maybe with some Interweb fame climbing to the top. With other friends, with different experiences yet I would have known my mind was not ready for that I would have thrown myself into the real world 2 years earlier, confronting the world with a much younger mind. My habit of being an underachiever has brought me much good to my life now I just need to know when to strike hard to get to where I need to go, something  simple probably conquer the world.

Journal # 18- 2 Things I would change of my school

First of all, to "most" of the office staff and ASB head..... get out of the school! NOW!
That is the first thing I would do kick them out and replace them for people who can do their job right. Well I would let the staff at the office stay do I have a grudge against the ASB, they are now making the school "uncool" in a way there is less freedom. For example now nobody can sell anything, chips, chocolates you name it. If someone sees you selling they take your things and money. I can see them running sting operations on students and busting open their locks as tons of chips and bottles of chile and chamoy fall from them. The school is becoming a bit more strict.
The second thing I would change from this school is, the food they give out during lunch and nutrition break. Ok, the muffins are good, the fruits are good, the bread sticks are good, the little cups with sliced peaches are great, yet the pizza and sometimes the hamburgers are in horrible shape in looks and taste. The pizza looks like the poured an extra liter of cooking oil ontop and the burgers well sometimes the bread is tough. If we could get a nicer pizza then I would be happier, they should have food like in elementry that food was the best!.

Journal # 19- School Attendance

Should school attendance be mandatory? I would say no, it should be a students decition and their parents whether or they wish to attend school. As it was in the around the 60's schools did not worry as much as they do now when a child didn't attend to school. Now they call our homes and if it get to a point where you are absent everyday they might even involve the police. Even though this is good as the education in America is declining , grades aren't so great and students tend to slack of after Highschool. Having an education increases your social skills and simulates a stressful environment which prepare someone for real life. Yet having to attend school is tedious I rather be working right now or doing something towards my career in mind. School would be better if we just took the classes we wanted for highschool and get those over with then move on to the university or college. Right now Im only thinking this state whise but if we where to have this all over the nation then we would see a rise in unemployment, debt, arrests, etc. Our country would be "DUMBER" in a sense of us not knowing our history or geometry. This is the land of the free yet I feel as that doesn't become true until im 18, as of now I have to go to a WORK like or jail like place, learn, and get good grades. It becomes an obligation that I never had an opinion on and makes me feel like ditching the whole place, just like many other must feel too.